Which is pretty brilliant. Partially because it’s making women feel safer, but mostly because it’s an example of people taking street harassment seriously.

When you say the words ‘street harassment’ the first thing that happens is a chorus of voices telling you that you’re a miserable kill joy. ‘It’s a compliment!’ people tell you. ‘Men can’t do anything these days!’ ‘What’s wrong with a man showing his appreciation?’

"Mom, how did you and dad meet?"

"Your dad yelled 'my size' at me on the street one day and that was it."

There is nothing wrong with a man showing his appreciation in the appropriate setting. When my fiance tells me I look great I don’t smack him upside the head and shout ‘SEXIST TW*T’. I say thank you, and I’m pleased. Because it’s an actual compliment.

Shouting ‘nice t**ts’ from a van as you drive past a woman is not a compliment. Nor is it an attempt to chat a woman up.

The thing that people seem to miss is that 99% of the time, these compliments aren’t about trying to get to know a woman. They’re not about wanting to ask her out, or chat her up. They’re not even about trying to f*ck her.

"Hey mom how did you and dad meet""Well one day him and his friends shouted at me while I was walking on my own and the rest is history"

These ‘compliments’ come from people who are in no position to ask for your phone number or follow you on twitter. They come from moving cars, out of windows, the top of building sites.

A man who shouts ‘nice arse’ at you from a Nova is not trying to get to know you. He is trying to assert himself. The only thing that he gains from the interaction is that he’s told you what he thinks about your body.

Why? Because he thinks his opinion about your arse is important. Relevant. Worthy of note. He thinks that his comment on your body is more important than your feeling safe, or confident.

If you see a woman who you think is attractive and you want to ask her out, fair enough. But there’s no need to publicly humiliate her by making a loud comment about what you’d like to do to her body.

The worst part is that often when you try to explain that you feel uncomfortable with that kind of attention, you’ll find yourself being told why you’re wrong. That you’re unreasonable. That you’re a feminazi.

Apparently wanting to be able to walk around the city where I live without people telling me what they’d like to do to my body, or what they think of my tits, isn’t okay.

If you’re a bloke, and you think that taking a stand against street harassment is humourless or weak, please at least take a moment to think about it.

How would someone who’s never been afraid to walk past a group of men know what it feels like? If you’ve never had someone shout personal comments at you on the street, what possible insight is it that you think you’re bringing to the conversation?

Though on that note, I have a special brand of frustration for women who smugly say ‘I like being whistled at’. ‘I love it when men comment on my body in the street.’

That’s fine. That’s nice for you. I’m sad you’re not getting any better, high caliber compliments from someone you have a meaningful relationship with, but y’know. Your call. If you like having things yelled at you by strangers, your call. But so, so many women don’t. So many women find it intimidating, upsetting or just down right scary.

Even if you do like being told that you’ve got a ‘nice rack’ by a man on a speeding bicycle, try to have a little thought for the kind of woman who feels genuinely afraid when she’s subject to street harassment. You’ve only got to look at the HarassTracker app to see that whilst some women might think it’s harmless, many find it genuinely intimidating.

My question is, what possible damage does it do to stop shouting comments about women’s bodies at them? What detrimental affect does it have on anyone’s life? Compared to the upside – women feeling safer when they walk down the street – surely it’s a no brainer? Does keeping your mouth shut really seem like such a big ask?

Top tip: If you really do feel that you need to make a comment on how someone looks, I suggest you go hang around outside a boxing gym and yell about what lovely bums the men coming out of it have. See how that goes down.

After all, if it’s just a compliment, why wouldn’t you do it to another bloke?